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Not every day I get to see my name underneath John Digweed and Nick Muir! All the remixes for this fantastic track are now available on Beatport and iTunes! Preview is through the link as well.

On with the promo copy!

The track itself follows a minimalist pulse that brings to mind the likes of Kraftwerk and Underworld and like the duo’s other recordings, it nods its hat not only to the early electro pioneers but early progressive rock and chillwave. This is undoubtedly a classic sound, the two piece playing the vast majority of instruments on the record themselves live in the studio, yet again fusing the digital with the traditional to great effect, bringing an organic approach to dance music.

Accompanied by a series of remixes, The Murf is expected to be a big club chart success. Carl Cox recently featured the band on a 2CD compilation for Space where he included one of the two remixes he contributed to their last single. This time around John Digweed, Nick Muir, Loverush UK! and Timothy Allan are on remix duties.

With massive coverage already in place on key radio shows and from the likes of tastemaker’s bible DJ Mag, Rendezvous’ profile is only expected to grow further with The Murf.

The first in a brand new series of video tutorials for you! Check out how I mixed down my remix of the classic track “Fine Day”, almost 4 hours of pure mixing goodness! Check out the press release below:

GO FROM RAW TO DANCE FLOOR

World-class remixer extraordinaire Timothy Allan is back with a series that will reveal all there is to make a huge, modern sounding electronic dance track right in your DAW. He begins with his remix of the classic dance track “Fine Day” in raw, multi-track form, and mixes from the bottom up, showing you all of his trade secrets along the way.

Shown in Logic, but applicable to any DAW, Tim covers the basics first, such as organizing the session, setting up sidechains, aux tracks for effects and the master bus configuration. Next, he works the kick drum, then whips up a rough mix, and hones in on all the individual elements such as vocals, percussion, synths, bass, pads and strings. He then wraps it up with vocal and effect tweaks that make huge differences in the mix, special kick and bass compression, automation and more.

If you’re striving for that “radio ready” sound and a mix that sounds huge in the clubs, this collection of video tutorials is a must see. After absorbing and applying Tim’s techniques, your electronic music tracks will sound more professional and stand out in the sea of music productions.

Check it all out here -> Groove 3 – Mixing Electronic Music

Just to let you know, I do have a Soundcloud page up where I put (usually) full length previews of upcoming remixes, tracks etc for you to check out. The link, funnily enough, is http://www.soundcloud.com/timothyallan so pop on over and add me to your Soundcloud buddy list!

Well chums, it’s that time again… time for some TA VIDEO LEARNING AWESOMENESS. This time it’s various tips and tricks for production, mixing, effects, Live workflow and your general health and wellbeing.

A grand total of 3 full hours of videos broken down into the following:

Effects
Autopan Gate’r
Delays into Flangers
The Double Track Rack
Fun with Inverting
Multiband Split Effects
Inline NY Compression
Wet / Dry Knob on anything

Mixing
Oversampling & High Quality
EQ3
Utility Volume

Production
Borrowing Grooves
Chromatic Sampling
MIDI Mangling
MIDI Warping
Multi Envelopes & Transient Shaping
Never Ending MIDI Note
Random Session Automation
Return Feedback Loops
Time Synced Simpler
Tuning Samples
Vocoder Shaker

Workflow
Default Presets
Slicing Presets
Frozen Bits
Impulse’s Secret Group
MP3 Housekeeping
Multiwarping
One Button Live Looping
Template Setup
User Remote Scripts Intro

Detailed description and a free video are located in the link below:
http://www.groove3.com/str/live-tips-and-tricks.html

TA originals hot off the press! Here’s the word from the lads at Audio Therapy:

Originally from Canada but now residing in beautiful Melbourne Australia, producer Timothy Allan has been popping up on our radar quite a bit recently with his acclaimed remixes of Empire Of The Sun, Seaman & Funkagenda and Dirty South. So much so, we decided it was high time we invited him to hop aboard our merry bus of acid house revelry and join the Therapy fold.

He duly obliged and above and beyond the call of duty, he has done us proud with a couple of storming cuts that have been two of our very own Dave Seaman’s secret weapons in recent weeks. ‘Pony Up’ is a genre straddling peak timer driven by an hypnotic percussive riff and featuring a couple of explosive drops whilst ‘Bring It Back’ is a barnstorming slice of main room tech house that weaves it’s way to yet another dancefloor destroying payoff. Seriously guys, these are not to be missed. Our casa es su casa!

For further evidence, check out this little vid of Mr Seaman playing Pony Up in Mexico recently…
http://tinyurl.com/2cmpmp9

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Federico Epis – Amazing track ! Pony Up for me thanks
Egostereo – Love Bring it back Thanks Egostereo
MOS – Nice one! Will test these out. Thank’s!
Aldrin – 2 slices of peaktime action!
Slam – Nice EP – will try out – thanx
Jon Cowan – two monsters…. pony up seems to be my pick but will support both for sure….
Erphun – Like Pony Up, nice funk!
Lexicon Avenue – excellent love pony up will work a treat
Amin Golestan – Both tracks are perfect for peak time. Love both of them
Nick Warren – bring it is the one for me
Steve Parry – Pony Up is very good, Bring It Back is cool!
Wally Lopez – A bit progressive for me now..will tet
DJ Meri – totally into Bring It Back! thanks..
Pete Gooding – best track on label for some time!!! will play on show and at gigs
Presslaboys – good techouse
Neil Quigley – Bring It Back brings the funk
Henry Saiz – Pony up is great for the dancefloor, thank you!

Beatport
https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/release/detail/302900/pony-up-bring-it-back

Therapy Store
http://audiotherapy.bandcamp.com/album/timothy-allan-pony-up-bring-it-back

Update: Both tracks have made it to Dave Seamans Top 10 December 2010 tracks on Beatport. Merry Christmas! https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/chart/detail/30564/dave-seaman-december-2010-chart

It was back in the year 2000 that this baby first graced the international dancefloors. Now 10 years later it’s coming back and once agin ready to dominate the floors around the world.

The Shrink Reloaded – Nervous Breakdown 2010 gets the Timothy Allan treatment, Armand Van Helden style jacking beats and that riff which will send you into a nervous breakdown.

Fatboy Slims comments after playing it at the grand opening of Space Ibiza 2010:
“10 out of 10. It sounds huge on a big system and the crowd were loving getting tweaked by it
Top marks all round
X Norm”

Update 2: Some guy named David Guetta just dropped it three weeks in a row on his Fuck Me I’m Famous radio show.

Further support from TV Rock, Dresden & Johnston, Oakenfold, Robbie Rivera, Luke Brancaccio, Trent Cantrelle, Col Hamilton, Brandon Block, Nervo, D:Fuse, Flash Brothers, Johan Gielen, Ronski Speed, Public Domain, Felix Baumgartner, Dash Berlin and Trevor Rockcliffe.

Update 3 November 19 2010: The Vocal version has now hit #1 on the DMC and Music Week Charts. I’ve got the #1 remix in the UK Club charts

Update 4: My remix is now the main mix, with the vocal version having a full music video here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMGlEGt4bLA

Update 5: December 27, 2010 – DMC says that this track was the #5 biggest club track in the world for 2010! Music Week respectively says this track was the 7th biggest club track in the UK for 2010!!

Chart positions!
# 01 DMC World House Charts
# 01 DMC Club Charts
# 01 DMC UK
# 01 UK Music Week Club
# 01 DMC World Commercial
# 01 DMC Monthly
# 02 DMC World UK Club
# 10 Music Week Cool Cuts
# 13 DMC Update Buzz
# 04 British Dance Chart

Listen to the main version here:
http://soundcloud.com/loverushdigital/the-shrink-reloaded-nervous-breakdown-2010-timothy-allan-remix

Listen to the vocal version here:
http://soundcloud.com/loverushdigital/the-shrink-reloaded-featuring-mc-pryme-nervous-breakdown-2010-new-mixes-timothy-allan-club-mix-explicit-version

Just wanted to let you guys know about a new full time business I’ve started up. It offers some really cool services geared towards smaller labels and bedroom producers, specializing in electronic music.

The main services the Mixplant provides you and your music are:

• Mixing (of your projects)
• Mastering
• Tutoring, instructional lessons, general EDM production help etc.

The Mixplant is perfect if you:

• Can’t get your music to compete sonically with the big boys.
• Are a small label looking to get cost effective but great sounding mastering done for your releases.
• Are anyone wanting a competitive advantage by learning more about dance music production including tips, tricks or techniques.
• Are finding it hard to make a professional sounding demo for labels, DJs, A&R etc…

Then I highly encourage you to take a look at the site. Everything is outlined very clearly and straightforward, no surprises! If you have any questions please jump over to the Contact page and get in touch!

I look forward to working with you!

Well, what can I say. I had some time on the holidays with just my iPhone and a laptop and did this little number. It’s a full club mix of Rovio’s Angry Birds theme song, probably suited more to the prog/tech/house guys. Rovio has nothing to do with this, it wasn’t a commission or paid work.

Edit: Tiesto just played this on his Club Life radio show. Awesome. Tracklist

Preview it under the image:

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Download the 320 here:
Timothy Allan – Angry Birds Remix.mp3

Or link to it on Soundcloud here:
Soundcloud

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTWs8ZX0rT4

It’s here! The third in the Producing House Music video tutorial series is out thanks to the fine folks at Groove3.

If you missed the previous two video on Producing House Drums or Producing House Basslines and Synths, go check em out!

Total Runtime: 03h : 35m : 20s

The chapters included are:

Introduction
Arrangement Methods in Live
DJ Intro & Outro
The Power of Two
Chunking Your Arrangements
Mapping with Locators
Analyzing Existing Arrangements – Part 1
Analyzing Existing Arrangements – Part 2
Power of Little FX
Making a Radio Edit
The Big Breakdown
The Finality of Working with Audio
Faking Note Chase in Live
Introduction to Transitions & FX
Transitions with Sends & Sidechaining
Using Bass Filtering in Transitions
Sidechain Delay
The One Bar Breakdown
White Noise Sweep
Pitched Risers
Delay Re-Pitch FX
Reverse Reverb Techniques
Percussive Delay Hits
Feedback Loop with Delay
Using Random FX & Fills

THE FINAL EPISODE – SEE HOW TO BRING IT ALL TOGETHER!
Remixer extraordinaire Timothy Allan does it again with Volume 3 of his smash hit house music production tutorials. In this series Timothy wraps it up with an in-depth look at the art of arranging a house track as well as applying effects.

Timothy Allan’s remixes have reached #1 on the UK dance charts and placed high on US Billboard, DMC and Australia ARIA charts. His remix skills have even landed him a featured spot on an upcoming Madonna production, so he knows his business.

This is the final collection in the series, showing you how to finish your house music track by creating a smashing dance floor arrangement, as well as adding the all important house music effects to create impact and dynamics. If you’ve seen the first 2 chapters, this is a no-brainer.

Product Hightlights
23 in-depth Tutorials / Over 3.5 Hours of Runtime
For all beginner to intermediate Ableton Live users and House Music producers
Tutorials by dance music super producer Timothy Allan
Simple to use video control interface for Mac & PC

User Level: Beginner to intermediate
Works With: Ableton Live 8, Ableton Live 7
Author: Timothy Allan
Viewing Options: Watch Online, Download, Boxed Disc, iPhone Streaming

As with the other two vids, I use Live as my DAW of choice, but most (if not all) of the techniques can be applied to any DAW.

Check out the preview video, and get the rest of the details here! Producing House Music with Ableton Live: Arrangement & FX

Out July 21, 2010 on the slamming Toolroom Records is the re-rub by Dave and Funkagenda, with myself and D. Ramirez on the remix duties.

Two of house music’s most highly sought after talents in Funkagenda and Dave Seaman team up for
Toolroom Trax’s next release, a devilishly dark re-rub of ‘The Mighty Ming’.

Having conquered both the underground and commercial floors, Dave Seaman has enjoyed success for well over a decade with remixes and productions for the likes of New Order through to Michael Jackson and shows no intention of resting on his laurels with this superb release. Funkagenda continues to impress with his unique, forward-thinking productions and stunning DJ sets moving the biggest global dancefloors from Ministry of Sound, London to Space, Ibiza.

‘The Mighty Ming’ is a monstrous track that takes you on a dark and distinctive foray into some gritty tones. A sharp, resonating bass grinds away beneath some tight beats and oriental tinted percussion. Eastern tinged stabs punch through the mix with vocal cuts and side-chained pads propelling this into a peak time bomb.

On remix duties is the sublime D.Ramirez, providing a mighty remix in his own inimitable style. He combines an old school flavour with warm, crisp synths and a euphoric breakdown that will have the party-goers raising their hands in the air. Timothy Allan completes the remix package on a deeper note with flickering percussion, deep bass tones and a mix of arpeggios and driving synths making for a great take on the original.

Check out the preview below:

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Update: She’s out! Go replace that DJ rip you’ve been playing out with a fresh 320 version iTunes Link

Out through System Recordings is my 3 track EP titled “Hotel Radio”!

The tracks range from the quirky “Bugger It” which was the remix fodder for the successful remix comp from last month, to the chuggy “Listening to a Sample” and finally the darker “Try Outs”.

Check it out on Beatport!

Update: Previews are a go!

The track “Listening To A Sample” was an idea that stemmed from the watermark I put on my website preview tracks. I ended up making a whole track about it! Check out the preview of the funk below the cover image.

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Here’s a preview of a more choppy tech vibe track included on the EP called “Try Outs”:

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Update 2: Check out the great alternate cover art sent out of the blue to me by “Rumor”! Click for fullsize

Here’s a clipping of an interview I’ve done for the latest issue of Inpress/Zebra street press magazine. The interview delves deep into my psyche, and I answer questions on my “Hotel Radio” EP and it’s remix contest, an upcoming Toolroom release with Dave Seaman and Funkagenda, and so much more.

Click the image for the full spread.

Here’s the scoop! We have teamed up with Ohm Force, Camel Audio, System Recordings and Prime Loops to offer what we feel is one of the best remix competition opportunities out there.

There will be three winners and big prizes for all of them: a release on System Recordings, full memberships to the training videos at Groove 3, plugins from Ohm Force, the incredible synth Alchemy of Camel Audio and 5 sample packs from Prime Loops!

You know the deal, its a remix competition… Make a bangin remix and you could win stuff. You have until May 31st, 2010 to download the stems.

1st Place Prizes :

(1) Track released on Timothy’s upcoming Remix EP for soon to be released “Hotel Radio”. “Hotel Radio Remixes” is set to be released this fall by System recordings.
Compliments of Ohm Force – 1 x Ohmicide:Melohman distortion + Ohmboyz delay + Quad Frohmage filter + Symptohm:Melohman synth
Compliments of Camel Audio – 1 x Alchemy Synth
Compliments of Groove 3 – 1 year full membership to the training videos at Groove3.com
5 free of choice Prime Loops sample packs

2nd Place Prizes :

(1) Track released on Timothy’s upcoming Remix EP for soon to be released “Hotel Radio”. “Hotel Radio Remixes” is set to be released this fall by System recordings.
Compliments of Ohm Force – 1 x Ohmicide:Melohman + Ohmboyz delay
Compliments of Groove 3 – 1 x 90 day full membership to the training videos at Groove3.com
5 free of choice Prime Loops sample packs

3rd Place Prizes :

(1) Track released on Timothy’s upcoming Remix EP for soon to be released “Hotel Radio”. “Hotel Radio Remixes” is set to be released this fall by System recordings.
Compliments of Ohm Force – 1 x OhmBoyz delay
Compliments of Groove 3 – 1 x 30 day full membership to the training videos at Groove3.com
5 free of choice Prime Loops sample packs

The Remix pack, track preview and all other goodies can be found at the following links:

groove3.com

findremix.com

Update: Huge thanks to everyone who entered! I listened to every single one of them… a few times!

The final winners are:

1st place: Radiopaque
2nd place: Vondeck
3rd place: Jerome Ferry

In fact, because we were so impressed with many of the entries we have added 10 honorable mentions and Groove 3 is now giving the top 3 places AND all 10 honorable mentions a 1 year pass to all the training on Groove3.com. This is in addition to the awesome prizes for the top 3 places.

1. Bainsey


2. Krossbow


3. 1ino1eum


4. Nfuze


5. DivKid


6. Rumor


7. Heavily Iced Breaks


8. Nikolozi


9. VicenteK


10. Music Kio


It’s about time I released some original material! Out today on the lovely KULT records is an album containing 4 brand new originals, and 4 instrumentals of vocal remixes I’ve done in the recent past. Every now and then KULT records in NY do an artist series where they release an artist album entitled “The KULT of xxx”. Well, it’s my turn to be xxx.

They’re all tunes I’m really happy with, my best work to date. They range from cruisy mellow melodic prog/tech to big room banging club. All the tracks all full club mixes as well, perfect for playing out. If I was to pull out some comparison names it’d have to be folks like Booka Shade, Chris Lake, Anjunabeats, even some Axwell.

No previews here, but there are full previews of all the tracks on Beatport, check it out here: Beatport!

Music Week says “She Cries is actually a pretty piano-based ballad, which has been pumped up for club purposes in mixes by Bassmonkeys, Younique, Timothy Allan, Hi-Jack, Stereojackers and Soulshaker.”

UK Music Week also says that it’s #1 on the Club Chart, and #2 on the Music Week Mainstream charts for the week of March 13, 2010. GOOD TIMES!

Edit: and again! No. 1 in the Music Week Upfront Charts, and No. 1 in all the DMC Mainstream charts ahead of Lady Gaga, JLS, Pixie Lott, Calvin Harris, Sugababes etc etc.

#1 MW Club chart
#1 DMC World Chart
#1 DMC UK club chart
#1 DMC House Chart
#1 DMC mainstream Chart
#2 MW Commercial Pop Chart

Coming out on Audiofreaks label soon.

Check out the preview of my remix below:

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Marcia Juell and Cybersutra team up on this latest release from my pals at KULT. I’ve de-tranced the original and done up a new one as a vocal remix with some epic keys and chords. Instrumental release is pending as well for you cats who asked for it

Check out the preview below, then check out Beatport to pick it up!

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You asked for more video tutorials, and now they’re back!

My first video in the series was so well received, and so many people asked for a second one… that I’ve decided to do another! This whole video focuses on tips for Synths and Bass for House and EDM in general.

As with my first video in the series, this one is aimed towards beginner to intermediate producers who want to fast-track the production learning curve. However, in some sections I’ve tried to cater for all levels, so I’m sure that even the more experienced producers will also gain a tip or two.

Here’s the scoop on what’s included:

Almost 2 and 1/2 hours of tutorials covering goodies such as:

Making a Bass from any Sample
Tuning Sampled Bass
Bass Keying with the Drums
Bass EQ without an EQ
Bass Layering
Resampling Bass Notes
Frequency Splitting
Sidechaining Bass
Sequencing Basslines
MIDI Resampling
Sequence using your Voice
Filter & Env Modulation
Break it Down
Sub Bass Tips
Sub Bass Kick
Synth Swells
Matching Kick & Bass
Dubstep & Wobble Basslines
Creating a Bass Bomb

Some of the tips involving complex midi routing etc are pretty Live specific, but I’d say that 85% of the content can be applied to any DAW.

Preview video and more info can be found here:
http://www.groove3.com/str/producing-house-with-live-bass-synth.html

Update: Music Tech Magazine has reviewed the video with an 8/10 rating. Click the image for the full review!

Here’s a quick preview of my upcoming remix of Mr. Alex M.O.R.P.H. which will be out soon on the S2S/LRD label.

It’s currently making the promo rounds and is being supported by Sandra Collins (Perfecto), Sleazy E (Australia), Dennis Sheperd, Flash Brothers, Adam White (Perfecto), Beltek, Dash Berlin, Armin Van Buuren, Johnny Viscious, Armandi, Liam Shachar, Out Of Office / Michael Woods, Peter Gelderblom, Ernesto vs Bastian, Bellatrax, Menno De Jong, Gareth Emery, Mark Lewis, Raul Rincon and TYDI to name a few.

Also on the remix bill is the man himself Mr. Paul Van Dyk, Loverush UK!, Sted-E & Hybrid Heights and Ilya Malyeuv.

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One of the few originals I’ve managed to get done over the past few months is finally out in the wild. This one is a collaboration between Marcie and myself with remixes from Kinky Roland, Bobby Savage & Greg Pidcock and Christian Scott.

It’s hit #7 on the DMC UK Club Chart for the first week of 2010, #1 on the Music Week Club Chart Breakers, and #11 on the World House charts… the world! Top 10 for the first week of 2010. Good start to the year so far

Preview below of the original can be found underneath the cover art.

UPDATE: It’s been released today on beatport! Go check it out! Beatport Link

Update again: It’s now available on iTunes

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Out now on Open Records is a remix i’ve done for the Fiord boys which was one of the winners of their remix contest they held a while back. I’m just waiting for the mastered version and you’ll be able to check a preview and hit up Beatport if you are… keen on it… HARHAR! Beatport link is HERE and the official release info is below:

It is in this party spirit that Open Records is giving our fans both at home and abroad a special Christmas treat in the shape of Fiord’s Keen String Remixes EP, featuring 7 top tracks including four winners from our remix competition earlier this year.

The end result was almost overwhelming and with over 200 entries from all corners of the globe, we decided the standard was so high to declare four equal winners in a variety of styles to join Open Records artists Fiord, GMJ and Eegor on our final release for 2009.

Canadian-born, Melbourne-based producer Timothy Allan immediately impressed with his sophisticated melodic progressive house interpretation, while another Melbourne producer, Blinky, also proved he is a name to watch with a driving progressive techno bomb.

Mexico’s Interactive Noise caught our ear with a big outdoor festival stormer, while New Zealand act Opiuo rounds the EP off in spectacular style with a glitchy, bass-heavy broken beat monster that has been tried and tested at events all over the globe.

Open Records are proud to work with these exciting artists and thanks everyone for their efforts in the Keen String Remix Competition.